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activepeanuton Meta’s entire 24-person team works and lives together in the same estate

Would your bring your wife and kids into this environment? Or even just a date?

You have to be part of a very very narrow demographic to be compatible with this type of work environment.

activepeanuton Meta’s entire 24-person team works and lives together in the same estate

Nice sweatshop.

Is this the latest, legal, technique to discriminate against older workers?

activepeanuton Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2013)

Does Google-Madison stack-rank like the rest of Google?

activepeanuton Unity Game Engine to Get Official 2D Game Support and a Built-In Ad Solution

Any opinion on Moai vs CoronaSDK? I know people who use Corona, but not Moai.

activepeanuton The Japanese have embarked on an intriguing and desperate monetary policy

Isn't it better for their economy if the things they make is just a /little/ better than the stuff made in China? (Think "planned obsolescence".)

activepeanuton The Three Hour Hackathon to Cure Facebook Addiction

  If you need IM, use Jabber protocol.
  Log in with your.name@chat.facebook.com

Does this work? I've never been able to login to facebook chat using jabber.

activepeanuton iOS Development Tips If You're Just starting Out

You can't push your modifications to a submodule you don't own.

Also, you can only remove a submodule manually. There's no option to have git do it for you.

activepeanuton iOS Development Tips If You're Just starting Out

Do you have a non-Apple-specific suggestion? We do cross platform development, so Cocoapods aren't an option.

activepeanuton iOS Development Tips If You're Just starting Out

  Otherwise you can just use git submodules.

I would recommend against it. They become a real pain down the road.

I wish I had something to suggest as a replacement. We're still trying to figure that one out ourselves. We just know we won't use submodules again. For now, we're manually managing disjoint repositories.

activepeanuton Devops/Sysadmin Cheatsheet

Instead of:

  ls -al | sort -nk5

I suggest:

  ls -larS

activepeanuton Survey says Facebook still in use by young, but Snapchat/Instagram are real

Another problem, post-university, is keeping a clean Facebook profile when all your new connections are professionals.

G+ solve this with circles, but I don't know anyone on G+, and it's too easy to make privacy mistakes on Facebook.

My Facebook profile is turning into my new Linkedin as I'm getting older.

activepeanuton Graph of average App Store review times

Interesting question. Another one is, why the graph differs so much with the iOS one:

http://reviewtimes.shinydevelopment.com/ios-annual-trend-gra...

activepeanuton Graph of average App Store review times

I think it's the number of days it takes Apple to review your app before it can be sold in the Appstore.

activepeanuton How to host and manage static sites (of unlimited size) for free on Github

Yeah, this is ripe for abuse by pornographers. :(

activepeanuton How a New Generation of Entrepreneur is Forging the Face of New Japan

The most fitting way to describe these entrepreneurs would be modern day ronins.

activepeanuton A single line of Basic sends readers into a labyrinth

Small variant:

void main() { while (1) printf("%c", "/\\"[rand()%2] ); }

activepeanuton C++ pitfalls

Good catch. You're correct. I wish I could delete my original comment.

activepeanuton C++ pitfalls

  template<typename T>
  Array<T>::Array(int size)
  :  _size(size), 
     _data(new T(size)) // should have been new T[size]
  {}

That's not the only thing wrong here.

  private:
     T* _data;
     int _size;
  };

The order of initialization is the order of declaration, NOT the order you use in your constructor.

_data depends on _size being initialized first. Therefore _size must be declared above _data.

Note: I understand the next example goes over this issue. I just think this example should've been declared properly as to avoid distracting the reader from the main problem, "() vs []".

activepeanuton Never Apologize For Having An Opinion — Especially When You’re Right

Apologizing, in general, makes you look weak.

activepeanuton When the Nerds Go Marching In

  The team had elite and, for tech, senior talent from
  Twitter, Google, Facebook, Craigslist, Quora, and some
  of Chicago's own software companies such as Orbitz and
  Threadless

21st century SWAT team.

activepeanuton Dictionary app auto-posts piracy accusations on users’ Twitter accounts

What do you think of disabling IAPs if IAPCracker or IAPFree is detected?

activepeanuton All-in-one iPad Mount and Stand

That's why windshield mounts are illegal in some states, like California.

activepeanuton Apple fires up its version of Google’s "20% time"

Indeed.

Ditto for certain groups at Google (cough android cough).

Either have a dedicated research group, or give people a pass at being 20% less productive at their regular job.

Here's a novel idea.. increase your workforce by 20%? I know, that's just crazy talk. :)

activepeanuton BlackBerry 10 Launch Event to be Held on January 30th 2013

About a hundred years ago you could've asked the same questions of the car industry.

I'm not a fan of RIM, but the iPhone might just be today's Ford Model T.

activepeanuton Hitchhiking’s Time Has Come Again

Also normal behavior in Hawaii.

activepeanuton Ask HN: Who wrote Orca?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor

  Never attribute to malice that which
  is adequately explained by stupidity.

activepeanuton Groupon Reports Q3 2012 Earnings Below Expectations

You weren't kidding:

http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3AGRPN

Brutal.

activepeanuton New Jersey To Allow Voting By Email

I'd love to be able to vote thru the internet, with a state-issued certificate to authenticate me. It'll be a while before society's tech savvy enough for this tho so I won't hold my breath.